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unusual facts about monarchist



Achille Lauro

After the war, after an initial participation in the Common Man's Front, he became active in the monarchist movement of Alfredo Covelli and financially supported the birth of the Monarchist National Party (PNM), and was for a long time the mayor of Naples, appreciated and questioned for his management of the public funds.

Active measures

In "Trust Operation" (1921–1926), the State Political Directorate (OGPU) set up a fake anti-Bolshevik underground organization, "Monarchist Union of Central Russia".

Alexander Kazembek

Alexander Lvovich Kazembek (1902–1977), Russian émigré monarchist, founder of the Mladorossi

Bare Bones

Praise-God Barebone (c. 1598–1679), English leather-seller, preacher and Fifth Monarchist

Common Man's Front

The Common Man's Front (in Italian: Fronte dell'Uomo Qualunque, UQ) was a short-lived right-wing populist, monarchist and anti-communist political party in Italy.

Dominique de Roux

Dominique de Roux was born in a Languedoc noble family which was close to the monarchist circles (his grandfather, Marie de Roux, was the lawyer of Charles Maurras and the Action Française).

Dušan Kovačević

A declared royalist, Dušan Kovačević is a member of the Crown Council of Aleksandar Karađorđević.

Eugenio Vegas Latapie

A founder member of Acción Española, Vegas Latapié was noted for his extreme monarchism to the point that he lost faith variously in Alfonso XIII, his son Juan and grandson Juan Carlos, to whom he was a tutor, as he felt that they were not monarchist enough.

Francisco Maria da Veiga

Francisco Maria da Veiga, GCNSC, KCVO was a Portuguese judge and pro-monarchist.

Integralismo Lusitano

The Integralismo Lusitano movement rallied all monarchist movements behind the descendents of Miguel (who was exiled after the Liberal Wars).

Lima Barreto

His father was a typographer and a monarchist who had close connections to Afonso Celso de Assis Figueiredo, the Viscount of Ouro Preto, who would later become Lima Barreto's godfather.

Max Matern

When in June 1922, several thousand members of monarchist warrior associations came together in Eggesin in honour of General Field Marshal August von Mackensen, Max Matern and his brothers also went there to attack those gathered there with fists and clubs, and to chase them off.

Miguel Maura

At first a supporter of the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera he moved from a monarchist position towards a moderate republicanism.

Robert Overton

This perception was reinforced by the sermons of John Canne, a well known Fifth Monarchist preacher in Overton's regiment at Hull.

Royalist

In the United Kingdom today, the term is almost indistinguishable from "monarchist," because there are no significant rival claimants to the throne.

Russian All-Military Union

Many (but not all) of its members had monarchist sympathies of varying flavors: constitutional vs. autocratic, Romanov vs. non-Romanov oriented.

The OGPU set up a fake anti-communist monarchist organization, the Monarchist Union of Central Russia, which was successfully used to confuse and later demoralize the ROVS.

Shalva Maglakelidze

A Germanophile and monarchist, Maglakelidze was close to the German military representative in the Caucasus von Schulenburg.

The Chaplin Society

The Chaplin Society is a monarchist gentlemen's dining society, based at Peterhouse, at the University of Cambridge.

Vietnamese Constitutional Monarchist League

The Vietnamese Constitutional Monarchist League believes in politically pressuring the Communist government of Vietnam to reach it goals so the Vietnamese people would have the opportunity to choose a Constitutional Monarchy government in an election, which does not violate the U.S. Neutrality Act.

Werl

Franz von Papen: German nobleman, Roman Catholic monarchist politician, General Staff officer, and diplomat, who served as Chancellor of Germany in 1932 and as Vice-Chancellor under Adolf Hitler in 1933 to 1934, and who helped him come to power, was born in Werl on 29 October 1879.


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